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The Pentagon's latest spending plan marks a little-noticed but important shift for the space industry, scaling back a push to use commercial satellites to supplement the military's communication and space efforts....

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It’s clear that Google had other things it could have talked about on the first day of the I/O conference. Like Google Glass. Instead, the attendees heard more about how Google has developed new ways to turn data into services. The highlights were not some fancy hardware but the magic...

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Many of the masterful comedic moments in Arrested Development are the result of recurring gags, the series' connective tissue. To help map every exclamation of "Steve Holt!" and proclamation that Gob’s illusions aren't tricks, digital ad firm Beutler Ink came up with Recurring Developments, an interactive infographic that guides...

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Don't think that the Galaxy S 4 has a lock on the concept of touch-free input. Panasonic has bolstered NTT DoCoMo's summer lineup with the Eluga P P-03E, a 4.7-inch Android phone whose one-handed interface can involve even less finger contact than Samsung's flagship. Its central Touch Assist feature...

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We've discussed GEMA's antagonistic attitude towards, well, pretty much everyone other than itself. In addition to turning the German YouTube experience into a farcical collection of "Sorry" faces and demanding fees for music it doesn't even control, GEMA has also been in the news due to its rollout of...

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Apple couldn’t have timed its countdown to 50 billion app downloads more perfectly. Just hours after Google revealed during its I/O conference keynote that app installs from its Google Play store had hit 48 billion, the iTunes App Store countdown clock rolled over to 50 billion passing another major milestone,...

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Solar company SunPower plans to roll out its first energy storage product, possibly lithium-ion batteries, in a bid to expand its share of the rooftop solar market, company executives said on Wednesday during the company’s analyst day. CEO Tom Werner told analysts that selling energy increasingly will require more comprehensive...

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Support for SMS was one of the notable omissions from Google Hangouts, the cross-platform messaging service that launched at the Google I/O event yesterday, but it appears the absence is only temporary according to details within the Google Play store. Included within the list of permissions for Hangouts for Android are requests to...

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Does your Android sound different from your iOS or WP? Of course not, but they do have their own quirks in operation, and to that end, Jays will launch the a-JAYS Five earphones this summer with a separate version for each. The new buds will draw from the company's...

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Plus Taiwan's problems in consumer electronics, European PC sales slump, Google's 'pure' GS4 and moreA burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology teamGoogle I/O: the liveblog >> Guardian TechnologyAmanda Holpuch at the keyboard, with Dominic Rushe checking the audience for Jon Hamm sightings.Samsung...